English class is a place where we can learn many things, one of them are short stories, this is a fiction work with a fully development theme but significantly shorter and less elaborated than a novel that require the following elements, characters, setting, conflict, point of view, theme, and plot. For an example of a short story I will mention “The Everest Story” this is a book that we already read in this class, and another example I have is the “The Thirty-Nine Steps”, this is a book we are reading and I will give my opinion of it.
Basically this book “The Thirty-Nine Steps” is about some people that were going to kill the prime minister but Sccuder knew this so h told Hannay the story of what was happening and what he know but some people wanted to kill Sccuder o he need somewhere to stay and be save in a place but no his house so Hannay accept and let him stay in his house. Time passed and it was a normal day for Hannay at work, when he got to his house he saw the lights off and in the corner saw something strange, when he turned on the lights he saw Sccuder dead on the floor with a knife through his heart. So ten Hannay decided to scape since Sccuder died in his house then people will think he was the responsible of this and will go to Jail, so he went to Scotland trying to hide from the police, while he was in there he passes through some problems and adventures that may complicate his things.
What I like the most of this book was the part when Hannay failed into a tramp when he got to a room, two mans locked the door and Hannay was there with no ways to go out. He saw a closet and since he was untied to the chair he went an open it, when he open it he found a chest but it was locked, he force it and open it, inside the c...
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AOI: Community and Service Unit Question: How can I use the short story to express my own ideas?
I can connect the AOI with the Unit Question and this book because the book we are reading is a short story that fulfills all the elements to be one of them. I can use short stories to express my own ideas because I am free of writing whatever I want by expressing my own thinking, I can demonstrate this at the time of writing a short story because I can choose if I want to do it about Fiction, Drama, Scary things, Love, Action, etc.
I hope you like and enjoy my opinion Essay and get animated to read this fabulous book.
"Unit 2: Reading & Writing About Short Fiction." ENGL200: Composition and Literature. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011. 49-219. Web. 19 Apr. 2014.
After hearing a brief description of the story you might think that there aren’t many good things about they story. However, this is false, there are many good things in this book that makes it a good read. First being that it is a very intriguing book. This is good for teenage readers because often times they don’t willingly want to read, and this story will force the teenage or any reader to continue the book and continue reading the series. Secondly, this is a “good” book because it has a good balance of violence. This is a good thing because it provides readers with an exciting read. We hear and even see violence in our everyday life and I believe that it is something teenagers should be exposed to. This book gives children an insig...
Short stories are temporary portals to another world; there is a plethora of knowledge to learn from the scenario, and lies on top of that knowledge are simple morals. Langston Hughes writes in “Thank You Ma’m” the timeline of a single night in a slum neighborhood of an anonymous city. This “timeline” tells of the unfolding generosities that begin when a teenage boy fails an attempted robbery of Mrs. Jones. An annoyed bachelor on a British train listens to three children their aunt converse rather obnoxiously in Saki’s tale, “The Storyteller”. After a failed story attempt, the bachelor tries his hand at storytelling and gives a wonderfully satisfying, inappropriate story. These stories are laden with humor, but have, like all other stories, an underlying theme. Both themes of these stories are “implied,” and provide an excellent stage to compare and contrast a story on.
Throughout English year 8 we have been reading various short story’s which I have enjoyed. These have included jewelled mirror, a daughter’s story and the key to success during the process of reading the story’s we had to find and highlight certain language devices used in the story’s such as metaphor, emotive language and personification and many more.
Wilson, Kathleen, ed. Short Stories for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories. Vol 2. Michigan: Gale Research, 1997.
Literature is an excellent way to convey messages to readers. Short stories are a form of literature that contain elements similar to those in novels, plays, and other works of literature. Although everyone is capable of writing a short story, not everyone is able to produce a good short story. It are the components within a story that sets some authors apart from others. Even so, there is always room for improvement as every short story has its strengths and weaknesses. In the short story “The Great Minu” written by Beth Wilson, the theme, use of dramatic irony, and imagery were nicely incorporated, whereas the conflict and character development could use some improvement. Another short story written nicely was “A Rupee Earned” by I.F. Bulatkin, which had nicely
...en I began reading this book, I will have to admit that I had a grudge against books of this kind. This is mainly because I was under the impression that books such as The Art of Fiction attempted to tell you how a piece of fiction ought to be written. However, I quickly learned that I was wrong. All this book attempts to do is teach the young writer about fiction and the many ways it can be approached. Furthermore, Gardner encourages the reader to chart his or her own course when it comes to writing fiction and not feel bound by a set of rules, an idea that I agree with wholeheartedly.
Throughout the course of this class, there have been many assignments involving short stories, however, Hands by Sherwood Anderson is a short story that I found intriguing. Hands is a short story about a man who was an educator who loved his student and his career. Later in his career he was wrongfully accused of molesting a young boy and as a punishment he was severely beaten by the boy’s father and run out of town. Sherwood Anderson published this short story in 1919 and in my opinion wrote a story that evokes every component in which a short story should contain. According to Wikipedia a short story is generally written in narrative prose and falls under 7,500 words, making short story writing an art because it must contain so many components to create and complete story.
In spite of her initial encounter with Richard Hannay through an unwanted kiss, she is a much embroiled in the plot as he is and thus rely upon one another. As a result, a relationship develops between them to the point that the audience is invested in both characters. As such, the same cannot be said about Richard Hannay in the book. He has no immediate family nor friends to rely upon and connect with on an emotional level to the degree that Donat’s Hannay is towards Pamela. Richard Hannay within Buchan’s version is a Mary Sue with the personality of a cypher who can outmaneuver any situation without breaking a sweat. However, Hitchcock’s Hannay is an ordinary man with enough charm to uncover a spy ring and get the girl as
In this Essay I am going to explain and talk about the two short stories known as “The-Thirty nine steps” it’s a book that has mystery, adventure and action in its content. This story starts with a man named Hannay that had recently came back to his country after being in Africa most of his life, the problem is that he is boring but his life changes when a man come to his door and tell him a plan of an evil organization that wants to start a war by killing a Prime Minister of two powerful countries. Hannay didn’t believe this but his perspective changes when the he found the man with a big knife going across his heart, and after this his life changes completely from being a normal man in a normal city to the last hope to stop a war. The other story “The Everest story” has Adventure and Drama and it’s about some climbers in our century that discover the dead bodies of two men at the top of the Everest and then the story gives a retrospective where it tell to us how these climbers get to the top of the Everest but the mountain will not surrender so easily and not all the climbers will survive in the betrayer Mount Everest.
Some of the characteristics of Modernism are: a desire to break conventions and established traditions, reject history, experiment, remove relativity, remove any literal meaning, and create an identity that is fluid. The rejection of history sought to provide a narrative that could be completely up for interpretation. Any literal meaning no longer existed nor was it easily given; essence became synonymous. Narrative was transformed. Epic stories, like “Hills Like White Elephants”, could occur in the sequence of a day. Stories became pushed by a flow of thoughts. The narrative became skeptical of linear plots, preferring to function in fragments. These fragments often led to open unresolved inconclusive endings. This echoes in the short story’s format. The short story functions in fragmented dialogue. Focusing on subjectivity rather than objectivity. Creating characters with unfixed, mixed views to challenge readers.
Matthews states that a short-story is a story which focuses on one single thing, instead of elaborate many of them (398). It creates a “unity of impression” meaning that all elements of the story are combined together to leave a single feeling or effect on a reader (Matthews 398). The author stresses that the singularity (i.e. one place, one event, one character) in a short story is the main key that leads the reader to develop this unified impression (398).
This novel was very symbolic and had an extensive vocabulary. It was very intriguing and kept the reader's interest throughout the whole novel. I would recommend this novel to anyone who would like an exercise for his or her mind. There is a lot of insight needed to interpret this novel, but the challenge only adds to the intrigue.
In this unit we had been reading the book ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ writen by John Buchan, till now we had read from chapter one ‘The man who died’ to chapter six ‘The bald writter’; in this chapers Richard Hannay, the principal character, is the one that tells us the story, that means that the story is writen in first person. He tell us about the very interesting story of Franklin P. Scudder, at the beginning, but then he was murdered and Hannay thought he was obligated to continue investigating about Scudder’s story and find an answer, but it is not that easy, because ‘his enemies’, that first was Scudder’s enemies, ‘chase him night and day through the hills of Scotland’. The story of this book is taking place in london and Scotland. I choose these essay to be an opinion essay where I’m going to, obviosly, give my opinion of the chapters we had read till now.
time to sit down and read a novel. One difficulty of a short story is